At the age of eight, Brian Lackey is found bleeding in the crawl space of his home after experiencing something so traumatic that he cannot remember a whole period of five hours. In the following years, he slowly recalls details from that night, but these fragments are not enough to explain what happened to him, and he begins to believe that he may have been the victim of an encounter with aliens. Neil McCormick is fully aware of the events from the summer of 1981. Wiser than his years and curious about his developing sexuality, Neil found what he perceived as love and guidance from his baseball coach. Now, ten years later, he is a teenage hustler, a kind of terrorist, unaware of the dangerous path his life is taking. His recklessness is shaped by idealized memories of his coach, memories that unexpectedly change when Brian asks Neil for help and ultimately the truth comes to light.